10/03/2017

Royal Starr Film Festival Selects "The Barn Raisers"

The Barn Raisers, the new award-winning documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, is an Official Selection at the Royal Starr Film Festival and will be showcased Saturday, October 14 at 11:00 a.m. at the Emagine Entertainment Center, 200 N Main St, Royal Oak, MI. The Royal Starr Film Festival runs October 12-15, 2017. Festival information is available at www.royalstarr.org.

The Barn Raisers will screen at the Royal Oak Emagine Center Oct. 14 at 11AM.

The Barn Raisers tells the story of Midwestern barns by examining them through the lens of architecture. The film explores what building methods, barn styles, and materials tell us about the people who built them, the life they lived, and the role these “country cathedrals” played in the settling and building of the Nation. The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

The Barn Raisers was filmed in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. It was recently an Official Selection at California’s Newport Beach Film Festival.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Humanities Iowa, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of these organizations.